Floods head for Brisbane
Parts of Brisbane are being evacuated as floods approach the Queensland state capital.
Police, under the orders of the city’s mayor, are urging people to evacuate their homes as waters rise.
Around 6,500 homes and businesses are set to flood in the worst floods to hit Queensland since 1893.
A city under threat
The floods are expected to hit the city tomorrow and intensify by Thursday.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh warned that river levels would rise above the heights experienced in catastrophic floods of 1974 .
The recent floods have killed 10 people, including children, and another 70 people are missing.
They have impacted 200,000 people and have caused billions of dollars worth of damage.
When the flood hit Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, residents were left clinging to trees or railings, or were trapped in cars or on the roofs of buildings.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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